Through our discovery of Evernote and Zotero, thanks to you Dr. Fogleman, the world of online citation and note taking were made so much more user friendly. Students of all ages in the twenty-first century are expected, at an increasingly lowered age, to be technologically competent in the classroom. While I didn't take advantage of these resources as I could have, and most certainly should have, I am now aware that they and their like are available, and that I need to make a more vigilant effort to utilizing such programs more effectively, as our class did with our LRKB's.
Early on in the semester our class was introduced to the program that is Evernote. Evernote is surely an excellent learning tool - when used properly. My issue, however, was that I did not use Evernote very frequently. Earlier on in the course when researching poverty among students as we read A Hope in the Unseen, the Evernote web clipper seemed pretty cool! I could find an article, save it in the format I most desired, and boom, there it was. It was neat and tidy, easy to organize my documents, and hey, it's green, my favorite color. However, while it did serve me well at first, I began to use it a lot less frequently as we progressed. While it seemed great at first, after we started using Zotero, I would end up citing articles immediately and just reopening the given webpage when need be. While I feel I got along well enough after I stopped using Evernote, I feel as if my poor organizational skills would have been effectively supplemented by consistent use of this program. Nevertheless, I'm glad to have been introduced to it and perhaps I'll utilize it more effectively in the future.
Not including our classroom shared notebook, I only had three notebooks as part of my LRKB. These notebooks are titled First Notebook, American Education, and Deep Learning. The Deep Learning notebook was for articles related to solely deep learning; articles which I had used for an assignment we had earlier on in the school year. The second, American Education, was for articles and things other than deep learning which pertained to the class. The third was a default First Notebook, which was for a few other articles I discovered amidst my research, unrelated to our classwork. Within Deep Learning and American Education, I used several tags including classroom topics such as poverty, and reform, as well as authors names to organize my findings. While, as I mentioned before, I did not do this for long, it was convenient and a great way to find things I needed. Looking towards my future learning, even for this coming semester, I believe that taking advantage of a program such as Evernote in order to organize my academic resources to establish such sources as a lasting resource could prove very valuable. I've always struggled with organizing notes when they were physical. Clearly labeling notebooks and sorting out my various sheets and folders has always been a chore. If a learner decides to use Evernote to its full potential, such menial tasks would be made very easy. Going forward I intend to use Evernote wherever possible. A lot of learning is now being conducted online; resources are being distributed online and students are expected to make citations using a plethora of online sources. It would be foolish to not make a better attempt to more effectively use some of the tools made available to the public, especially when they come at no charge.
As I've stated several times now, the programs we've been introduced to in EDC 102H are without question extremely useful. I, however, did not take advantage of them despite recognizing how useful they could be. This is completely my error. While I held on without using them, Evernote in particular, very often, I plan to further develop an effective and neatly compiled LRKB with such resources in other future classes in order to enhance my learning experience, just as a modern student should.
Early on in the semester our class was introduced to the program that is Evernote. Evernote is surely an excellent learning tool - when used properly. My issue, however, was that I did not use Evernote very frequently. Earlier on in the course when researching poverty among students as we read A Hope in the Unseen, the Evernote web clipper seemed pretty cool! I could find an article, save it in the format I most desired, and boom, there it was. It was neat and tidy, easy to organize my documents, and hey, it's green, my favorite color. However, while it did serve me well at first, I began to use it a lot less frequently as we progressed. While it seemed great at first, after we started using Zotero, I would end up citing articles immediately and just reopening the given webpage when need be. While I feel I got along well enough after I stopped using Evernote, I feel as if my poor organizational skills would have been effectively supplemented by consistent use of this program. Nevertheless, I'm glad to have been introduced to it and perhaps I'll utilize it more effectively in the future.
Not including our classroom shared notebook, I only had three notebooks as part of my LRKB. These notebooks are titled First Notebook, American Education, and Deep Learning. The Deep Learning notebook was for articles related to solely deep learning; articles which I had used for an assignment we had earlier on in the school year. The second, American Education, was for articles and things other than deep learning which pertained to the class. The third was a default First Notebook, which was for a few other articles I discovered amidst my research, unrelated to our classwork. Within Deep Learning and American Education, I used several tags including classroom topics such as poverty, and reform, as well as authors names to organize my findings. While, as I mentioned before, I did not do this for long, it was convenient and a great way to find things I needed.
Looking towards my future learning, even for this coming semester, I believe that taking advantage of a program such as Evernote in order to organize my academic resources to establish such sources as a lasting resource could prove very valuable. I've always struggled with organizing notes when they were physical. Clearly labeling notebooks and sorting out my various sheets and folders has always been a chore. If a learner decides to use Evernote to its full potential, such menial tasks would be made very easy. Going forward I intend to use Evernote wherever possible. A lot of learning is now being conducted online; resources are being distributed online and students are expected to make citations using a plethora of online sources. It would be foolish to not make a better attempt to more effectively use some of the tools made available to the public, especially when they come at no charge.
As I've stated several times now, the programs we've been introduced to in EDC 102H are without question extremely useful. I, however, did not take advantage of them despite recognizing how useful they could be. This is completely my error. While I held on without using them, Evernote in particular, very often, I plan to further develop an effective and neatly compiled LRKB with such resources in other future classes in order to enhance my learning experience, just as a modern student should.